What, you mean that another company can't just swoop in and continue to produce the same exact models as the previous company with minor rebranding? *gasp* What do you mean they'd been made in other countries for years! Why do you hate America?
It's strange, but it seems like people believed (believe?) that IBM is a "True American!" company, and that Lenovo was somehow a grave sign of the last true US technology being offshored.
No, you are mistaken. The "series" are not in the same timeline as Innocence (whether the "series" means SAC or either the original GitS manga, the Man-Machine Interface, or Human Error Processor series).
Innocence is, however, a re-adaptation (as are many of the SAC episodes) of a story from the original manga. Aside from that, it is considered to be unrelated.
While I have no doubt that what much of you say is true, it's interesting to note that the Stand Alone Complex social construct in SAC is (apparently) partially based on the works of Masachi Osawa, a Japanese philosopher whose published papers have never been translated into English (along with Fredrick Jameson, who obviously has been).
Though I can buy into what you say. I had to watch the whole series twice before I really understood what happened in the first season.
There were no "sequels" to the "original" (based on the manga) GitS movie. Innocence is more or less completely unrelated to the first movie, the manga predated it, and Stand Alone Complex runs in a totally different timeline (and is significantly better than the first movie released).
The Fuchikoma from the manga were sorta-kinda like the Tachikoma, but less hyper-inquisitive.
The pig-dude avatar AIs in Man-Machine Interface were much more like the Tachikoma in SAC, but, like you, I really doubt that they'll put the Tachikoma in a movie. Too bad, cuz they could market the crap out of those little guys/girls/whatevers.
Translated: stare at animated tits while listening to poor low-budget voice acting.
Nah, the voice acting has gotten better over the years.
The tits are just an added bonus.:-P
Cheers
Not really, no. It went from absolutely atrocious to simply bad.
Innocence is ridiculously boring, anyway. And this is from someone who loves GitS in its other incarnations. Just Oshii being weird for the sake of being weird.
I should have quoted a little bit better, as I was specifically referring to this:
You're telling me that knowing that a film is considered 'anime' tells you nothing about what the films themes or aesthetics are?
Anime doesn't consistently present themes of "perseverence, personal resilience, or finding power within oneself" anymore than all American movies are 80's-style action films with all their attached valuesets.
What you *do* describe is what a lot of R1-licensed anime have in common (generally, stuff that is easy to translate and appeals to a wide audience that expects more of what they liked "last time"). There's a whole shitload of other sorts of anime that appeal to difference audiences and tell stories about other things.
Correct. Basically the entire gamut plotlines and storytypes in "anime" is the same as the gamut of "movies". There's little to no information conveyed when you say something is an "anime", other than it is animated.
As far as I've seen he's been doing consigned work for video games and other such projects. The vast majority of it never makes it in to English-language products, however, other than the Intron Depot collections that come out now and then.
The original GitS movie and Innocence have nothing to do plot-wise with the manga or with Stand Alone Complex. Solid State Society, of course, is in the SAC timeline.
The manga and SAC are in different timelines (and different story universes, as key plots and character details are different in each). The movies are best considered standalone to eachother as well.
100 or so engineers involved in the project have replicated Seagate's own processes for drive telemetry monitoring and error detection -- and drive re-manufacturing -- in firmware on the Linux-based ISE. ISE automatically performs preventive and remedial processes. It can reset disks, power cycle disks, implement head-sparing operations, recalibrate and optimize servos and heads, perform reformats on operating drives, and rewrite entire media surfaces if needed. Everything that Seagate would do if you returned a drive for service. My software RAID definitely doesn't do that.
Where are you buying a TV without modern inputs? Or, more importantly, WHY? Many of the big-box stores don't even carry them anymore.
Most gaming videocards come with outs that allow composite outputs, anyway. If you're buying a machine to game on your TV, you buy the proper adapters. You don't get RF adapters for modern gaming consoles anyway, you have to buy them separate.
Seems unwise. Don't both of those applications have a problem with accuracy when it comes to floating point operations/storage? (as in they tend to make arbitrary and inaccurate choices?)
Indeed. While the state of Windows security is far from perfect, Windows machines "just sitting around" aren't ticking time bombs (assuming, as the poster did, that it remains patched to most current levels, etc) any more than OS X, et al.
Instead of whining, you could just have gotten better at understanding accents. Not everyone in the world speaks American english.
Worked for me. I imagine it works for a lot of people.
One thing that always pissed me off about my classmates was their infinite ability to complain and their infinitesimally small ability to adapt to their situations.
Sadly, it's often a huge pain to not give everyone local admin rights (At least in the WinXP/2k arena). You can do some pretty fine-grained locking with GPOs, though. Where I am now it's pretty much IT support gets a lot of powers, developers get a lot of local powers (to their machine -- they also have their own dev lab on its own network segment that is fairly hands-off from a central support perspective), and normal users have local admin, but limited ability to install extra things (though it really comes down to having good anti-malware programs and forbidding automated applet installs from webpages).
Very often the problem I find with Windows admins that "make a mess of your system" is that, frankly, they're not very good.
It's entirely possible to construct a reasonably secure windows desktop template that doesn't require someone from IT to come by every time you want to install a toolbar. It's not easy, but it's possible.
Problem usually is that the admin in question is often clueless, so either does the minimum required ("Windows is insecure, I'll just reimage the machine if breaks"), or goes overboard, ("None of my machines have the user as local admin, I need to know everything that goes on every machine!"). Sadly, the middle-ground is rarely achieved with any competence.
Correct, because with corporations the first duty is to the shareholder (though strangely when bankruptcy occurs the shareholders often get almost-last consideration -- never figured out how that came about).
H1B's often do one of several things, including living in apartments with 3-4 other people (1-2 bedroom apartments). Also the money that they send back buys more than it does here. Additionally, the H1B is frequently not planning on staying, so saving for such purposes isn't necessary.
In short, your (mis)perception of a contradiction does not invalidate the reasoning.
Yeah. Back when I was just learning about investing (I'm still, mind you), I bought a small amount of a few large caps so I'd have some "skin in the game" to make me pay attention. GE was my best performer over time.
Currently I stick to index funds (or other passive funds with low costs) because I don't have the time to pay attention or research as much as would be necessary.
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What, you mean that another company can't just swoop in and continue to produce the same exact models as the previous company with minor rebranding? *gasp* What do you mean they'd been made in other countries for years! Why do you hate America?
It's strange, but it seems like people believed (believe?) that IBM is a "True American!" company, and that Lenovo was somehow a grave sign of the last true US technology being offshored.
No, you are mistaken. The "series" are not in the same timeline as Innocence (whether the "series" means SAC or either the original GitS manga, the Man-Machine Interface, or Human Error Processor series).
Innocence is, however, a re-adaptation (as are many of the SAC episodes) of a story from the original manga. Aside from that, it is considered to be unrelated.
While I have no doubt that what much of you say is true, it's interesting to note that the Stand Alone Complex social construct in SAC is (apparently) partially based on the works of Masachi Osawa, a Japanese philosopher whose published papers have never been translated into English (along with Fredrick Jameson, who obviously has been).
Though I can buy into what you say. I had to watch the whole series twice before I really understood what happened in the first season.
I think Milla should do it. She'd be perfect, if you ask me.
There were no "sequels" to the "original" (based on the manga) GitS movie. Innocence is more or less completely unrelated to the first movie, the manga predated it, and Stand Alone Complex runs in a totally different timeline (and is significantly better than the first movie released).
The Fuchikoma from the manga were sorta-kinda like the Tachikoma, but less hyper-inquisitive.
The pig-dude avatar AIs in Man-Machine Interface were much more like the Tachikoma in SAC, but, like you, I really doubt that they'll put the Tachikoma in a movie. Too bad, cuz they could market the crap out of those little guys/girls/whatevers.
Not really, no. It went from absolutely atrocious to simply bad.
Innocence is ridiculously boring, anyway. And this is from someone who loves GitS in its other incarnations. Just Oshii being weird for the sake of being weird.
Anime doesn't consistently present themes of "perseverence, personal resilience, or finding power within oneself" anymore than all American movies are 80's-style action films with all their attached valuesets.
What you *do* describe is what a lot of R1-licensed anime have in common (generally, stuff that is easy to translate and appeals to a wide audience that expects more of what they liked "last time"). There's a whole shitload of other sorts of anime that appeal to difference audiences and tell stories about other things.
Correct. Basically the entire gamut plotlines and storytypes in "anime" is the same as the gamut of "movies". There's little to no information conveyed when you say something is an "anime", other than it is animated.
As far as I've seen he's been doing consigned work for video games and other such projects. The vast majority of it never makes it in to English-language products, however, other than the Intron Depot collections that come out now and then.
The original GitS movie and Innocence have nothing to do plot-wise with the manga or with Stand Alone Complex. Solid State Society, of course, is in the SAC timeline. The manga and SAC are in different timelines (and different story universes, as key plots and character details are different in each). The movies are best considered standalone to eachother as well.
How long until I can make a sex android?
Seriously.
Where are you buying a TV without modern inputs? Or, more importantly, WHY? Many of the big-box stores don't even carry them anymore.
Most gaming videocards come with outs that allow composite outputs, anyway. If you're buying a machine to game on your TV, you buy the proper adapters. You don't get RF adapters for modern gaming consoles anyway, you have to buy them separate.
Seems unwise. Don't both of those applications have a problem with accuracy when it comes to floating point operations/storage? (as in they tend to make arbitrary and inaccurate choices?)
This is slow as hell, but it works.
Indeed. While the state of Windows security is far from perfect, Windows machines "just sitting around" aren't ticking time bombs (assuming, as the poster did, that it remains patched to most current levels, etc) any more than OS X, et al.
Instead of whining, you could just have gotten better at understanding accents. Not everyone in the world speaks American english.
Worked for me. I imagine it works for a lot of people.
One thing that always pissed me off about my classmates was their infinite ability to complain and their infinitesimally small ability to adapt to their situations.
Sadly, it's often a huge pain to not give everyone local admin rights (At least in the WinXP/2k arena). You can do some pretty fine-grained locking with GPOs, though. Where I am now it's pretty much IT support gets a lot of powers, developers get a lot of local powers (to their machine -- they also have their own dev lab on its own network segment that is fairly hands-off from a central support perspective), and normal users have local admin, but limited ability to install extra things (though it really comes down to having good anti-malware programs and forbidding automated applet installs from webpages).
There's a balance to be struck here.
Very often the problem I find with Windows admins that "make a mess of your system" is that, frankly, they're not very good.
It's entirely possible to construct a reasonably secure windows desktop template that doesn't require someone from IT to come by every time you want to install a toolbar. It's not easy, but it's possible.
Problem usually is that the admin in question is often clueless, so either does the minimum required ("Windows is insecure, I'll just reimage the machine if breaks"), or goes overboard, ("None of my machines have the user as local admin, I need to know everything that goes on every machine!"). Sadly, the middle-ground is rarely achieved with any competence.
Correct, because with corporations the first duty is to the shareholder (though strangely when bankruptcy occurs the shareholders often get almost-last consideration -- never figured out how that came about).
H1B's often do one of several things, including living in apartments with 3-4 other people (1-2 bedroom apartments). Also the money that they send back buys more than it does here. Additionally, the H1B is frequently not planning on staying, so saving for such purposes isn't necessary.
In short, your (mis)perception of a contradiction does not invalidate the reasoning.
Yeah. Back when I was just learning about investing (I'm still, mind you), I bought a small amount of a few large caps so I'd have some "skin in the game" to make me pay attention. GE was my best performer over time.
Currently I stick to index funds (or other passive funds with low costs) because I don't have the time to pay attention or research as much as would be necessary.
True, but as far as stocks go, GE is (over time) a pretty solid stock. And as the GPP said, the dividends are nice.
Plus they were smart enough to get rid of their financing arm a few years back.
That'll be useful when we make you a sex offender for some trivial or totally subjective action.